Page 2895 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

SECOND SERVINGMAN

Faith, look you, one cannot tell how to say that. For the defence of a town
our general is excellent. [175]

FIRST SERVINGMAN
Ay, and for an assault too.

Enter the Third Servingman.

THIRD SERVINGMAN
O slaves, I can tell you news − news, you rascals!

BOTH
What, what, what? Let’s partake.

THIRD SERVINGMAN

I would not be a Roman, of all [180] nations. I had as lief be a condemned
man.

BOTH
Wherefore? Wherefore?

THIRD SERVINGMAN
Why, here’s he that was wont to thwack our general, Caius Martius.

FIRST SERVINGMAN
Why do you say ‘thwack our [185] General’?

THIRD SERVINGMAN
I do not say ‘thwack our general’, but he was always good enough for him.

SECOND SERVINGMAN

Come, we are fellows and friends. He was ever too hard for him, I have heard
[190] him say so himself.

FIRST SERVINGMAN
He was too hard for him, directly to say the truth on’t. Before Corioles he